Netherlands
Carlo Clericetti – Solidarity Only in Exchange for Subordination
November 13, 2020
It is becoming increasingly clear that what were condescendingly termed the PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain) have learnt from the 2010...
How the Netherlands Hid Its War Crimes for Decades
By Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld
August 31, 2020
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,721, August 31, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The decades-long absence of international media interest in...
To swim with the tide in order to change it?
by Herman Michiel (*)
21 August 2020
I recently questioned the adoption by the left-members of the European Parliament (MEPs), belonging to the Confederal Group of...
The Origins of European Neoliberalism
The real source of neoliberalism in Europe is neither technocracy nor hegemony but a problem specific to the continent: intergovernmentalism
By Nicholas Mulder
On December 18,...
Cities lobby EU to offer shelter to migrant children from Greece
Amsterdam, Barcelona and Leipzig among cities calling for action to ease humanitarian crisis
By Jennifer Rank
24 Apr 2020
Ten European cities have pledged shelter to...
How Covid-19 poured cold water on Netherlands’ EU romance
Dutch opposition to recovery spending has overtones of British disillusionment
By Jennifer Rankin
23 Apr 2020
Isolated in a recent European Union council of ministers, with...
UK more nostalgic for empire than other ex-colonial powers
A YouGov poll reveals 30% of Britons believe colonies were better off as part of the British Empire
By Robert Booth Social
11 Mar...
The Revolt of the South, or the imperative to build a...
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
04/11/2020
Spanish (Socialist) Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has now taken the initiative to call for more solidarity inside the EU to confront the...
Divided against itself, can Europe’s house stand?
Brussels to the rescue? Ursula von der Leyen pushes for Covid-19 ‘Marshall Plan’ as bloc is far from united
3 Apr, 2020
The head of the...
Berlin, the Banks and Coronavirus against South Europeans. Russia, China and...
Von der Leyen brands corona bonds a ‘slogan,’ setting off firestorm in Italy
Commission issues ‘clarification’ after president seemed to dismiss joint debt plan backed...